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Group: US troops should actively hunt for Kony
The hunt for the African warlord Joseph Kony is hopeless without more troops, an advocacy group said Friday, urging American forces to "play a more ...
US futures off before Obama addresses fiscal cliff
U.S. stock futures fell sharply Friday in some of the heaviest trading this week before President Barack Obama speaks about avoiding the so-called ...
Condoleezza Rice: GOP sent 'mixed messages'
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the Republican Party must adapt better to rapidly changing demographics in the United States, saying ...
Changing times: Politicians' tears more common now
It seems out of place: The president of the United States breaking down in tears as he thanked campaign workers for their tireless work for his ...
Asian stocks sink on US fiscal cliff fears
Most Asian stock markets sank Friday, weighed down by fears over the so-called U.S. "fiscal cliff" that's seen as a big threat to the economic ...
A look at expected Obama administration departures
President Barack Obama is weighing replacements for several White House aides and Cabinet members expected to leave before his second term begins, or ...
Canada PM urges Obama to avoid "fiscal cliff"
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper urged President Obama on Thursday to work with the U.S. Congress to resolve the "fiscal cliff." Harper's office ...
Change coming to Obama's team, just not right away
Big changes are coming to President Barack Obama's administration — just not right away. The White House is making the nation's high-stakes fiscal ...
Iran's Ahmadinejad ridicules expense of US vote
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ridiculed the expense of the U.S. election, mocking it as a "battleground for capitalists" while speaking at a ...
Iran bans 'luxury' imports as sanctions bite
Iran's sanctions-fighting "resistance economy" suddenly got a lot leaner, less flashy and perhaps a bit more uncomfortable. The Islamic Republic ...
Official backs studying quake risks at nuke plants
Recent earthquakes demonstrate the need for the nation's nuclear industry to re-evaluate the geologic hazards facing power plants, a process that has ...
Obama to address 'fiscal cliff' on Friday
President Barack Obama will make his first postelection comments Friday about actions needed to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff that could plunge the ...
Fiscal cliff: Impasse on tax rates is big hurdle
House Republicans' hard line against higher tax rates for upper-income earners leaves re-elected President Barack Obama with a tough, core decision: ...
Stocks slide on Wall Street, extending sell-off
Stocks slid on Wall Street Thursday, a day after the Dow Jones industrial average logged its biggest one-day drop of the year, as investors fretted ...
Obama's health care overhaul turns into a sprint
The long slog has turned into a sprint. President Barack Obama's health care law survived the Supreme Court and the election; now the uninsured can ...
Obama's big Hispanic win worries Republicans
Omayra Vasquez blinks and does a double take when asked why she voted to re-elect President Barack Obama. The reason for her was as natural as ...
Election won't end abortion/contraception debate
Democrats and liberal advocacy groups have declared victory in what they called a Republican "war on women" and are celebrating the pivotal defeats ...
GOP groups taking stock after $380 million loss
Republican-leaning independent groups were supposed to be a key to victory for Mitt Romney. But they ended up being among the big losers of the ...
GOP groups take stock after $380 million loss
Republican-leaning independent groups were supposed to be a key to victory for Mitt Romney. But they ended up being among the big losers of the ...
US targets Iranians blamed for blocking Internet
The Obama administration has imposed financial sanctions against officials and government bodies in Iran that the U.S. blames for jamming satellite ...
ND voters add farmer protection to constitution
Voters in heavily agriculture-dependent North Dakota became the first to enshrine the right to farm in their state constitution, a move that some say ...
Obama's return a test of evolving foreign policy
Phrases to describe some of the looming foreign policy challenges for President Barack Obama didn't even exist when he took the oath of office the ...
Man behind anti-Muslim film gets 1 year in prison
The man behind an anti-Muslim film that led to violence in many parts of the Middle East agreed to spend a year in federal prison for unrelated ...
Myanmar says Obama to visit later this month
President Barack Obama will make a groundbreaking visit later this month to Myanmar, an official said Thursday, following through with his policy of ...